UC-NRLF 


OF    THE 


American  Entomological  Society 


OF 


PHILADELPHIA. 


Adopted  tit 


Held   Deot'T-i-iHer  113,  1887. 

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STOCKHAFSEN,  ENTOMOLOGICAL  PRINTKR, 
No.  55  North  Seventh  Street. 

1889. 


THE  LIBRARY 

OF 

THE  UNIVERSITY 
OF  CALIFORNIA 

PRESENTED  BY 

PROF.  CHARLES  A.  KOFOID  AND 
MRS.  PRUDENCE  W.  KOFOID 


BY-LAWS 


OF   THE 


America!!  Entomological  Society 


OF 


PHILADELPHIA. 


Adopted  at  a  meeting  Ineld  December  12,  1887. 


PAUL  C.  STOCKHAUSEN,  ENTOMOLOGICAL  PRINTER, 
No.  55  North  Seventh  Street. 

1889. 


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BY-LAWS. 


CHAPTER   I. 

OF   OFFICERS    AND   THEIR    DUTIES. 

ART.  I. — The  officers  of  the  Society  shall  consist  of  a  President, 
a  Vice-President,  a  Corresponding  Secretary,  a  Recording  Secretary, 
a  Treasurer,  all  of  whom  shall  be  elected  annually,  at  the  stated 
meeting  in  December. 

ART.  II. — The  President  shall  preside  at  the  meetings  of  the  So- 
ciety, enforce  the  laws,  preserve  order  and  decorum,  regulate  debates, 
state  and  put  questions  agreeably  to  the  sense  and  intention  of  the 
members,  and  announce  the  determination  of  the  Society  thereupon. 
He  shall  nominate  the  Chairman  of  all  Committees  other  than  those 
especially  excepted,  give  the  casting  vote  when  required,  and  call 
special  meetings  of  the  Society  at  such  times  as  he  may  deem  it 
necessary,  or  at  the  request  of  any  three  members  in  writing.  He 
shall  be,  ex-officio,  a  member  of  all  Standing  Committees. 

ART.  III. — In  the  absence  of  the  President,  his  duties  shall  devolve 
upon  the  Vice-President,  or  in  the  absence  of  both,  a  President  pro 
tempore,  selected  from  the  members ;  or  at  his  request  when  present, 
his  duties  may  be  performed  by  the  Vice-President. 

ART.  IV. — The  Corresponding  Secretary  shall  conduct  and  pre- 
serve the  correspondence  of  the  Society,  keep  correct  copies  of  all 
letters  written  on  the  business  of  the  Society,  acknowledge  the  receipt 
of  all  donations  from  persons  who  are  not  members  of  the  Society, 
notify  all  corresponding  members  of  their  election  and  keep  a  correct 
list  of  all  such  members,  with  the  dates  of  their  election,  resignation 
or  death.  He  shall  have  charge  of  the  certificates  of  membership, 
and  cause  one  to  be  properly  filled  up,' signed,  sealed  and  delivered 
to  each  member,  and  shall  lay  before  the  Society  at  the  stated  meet- 
ing in  December  a  written  report  of  his  transactions  during  the  pre- 
ceding year. 


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ART  V. — The  Recording  Secretary  shall  take  and  preserve  correct 
minutes  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Society,  preserve  in  regular  files 
all  documents  belonging  thereto  that  may  come  in  his  possession, 
read  all  communications  made  by  resident  members,  notify  all  resi- 
dent members  of  their  election,  and  all  committees  of  their  appoint- 
ment, keep  a  correct  list  of  the  resident  members  of  the  Society, 
with  the  date  of  their  election,  resignation  or  death,  and  lay  before 
the  Society  at  the  stated  meeting  in  December  a  written  report  of 
his  transactions  during  the  preceding  year.  In  his  absence  a  Re- 
cording Secretary  pro  tempore  may  be  appointed. 

ART.  VI. — The  Treasurer  shall  receive  and  take  charge  of  the 
funds  of  the  Society,  except  those  especially  provided  for,  and  attend 
to  the  collection  and  payment  of  moneys,  but  no  payment  shall  be 
made  by  him  except  on  an  order  from  the  President,  attested  by  the 
Recording  Secretary.  He  shall  keep  a  clear  and  detailed  statement 
of  all  receipts  and  expenditures  which  is  laid  before  the  Society  at 
the  stated  meeting  in  December,  and  at  such  other  times  as  called 
upon  by  the  Society. 

ART.  VII. — In  addition  to  the  foregoing  officers,  provided  for  in 
the  Charter,  there  shall  be  a  Librarian  and  a  Curator,  to  be  elected 
annually  in  connection  with  the  officers  of  the  Society. 

ART.  VIII. — The  Librarian  shall  take  charge  of  all  books  and 
pamphlets  belonging  to  the  Society,  prepare  a  bibliographical  cata- 
logue of  the  same,  collect  and  preserve  materials  for  a  history  of  the 
Society,  and  report  on  the  condition  and  state  of  the  library  to  the 
Executive  Committee  when  called  upon,  and  to  the  Society  at  the 
stated  meeting  in  December. 

ART.  IX. — The  Curator  shall  take  charge  of  the  collections  of 
the  Society  and  keep  the  keys  thereof  subject  to  the  call  of  Execu- 
tive Committee.  He  shall,  under  the  supervision  of  the  Executive 
Committee,  keep  the  collections  in  perfect  order  and  arrangement, 
shall  incorporate  therein  all  new  material,  and  shall  make  exchanges 
with  kindred  societies  and  individual  collectors.  Under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Librarian  it  shall  also  be  his  duty  to  perfect  and  maintain 
the  arrangement  of  the  library,  incorporate  therein  and  carefully 
catalogue  all  additions  thereto,  as  opportunity  affords  prepare  a 
thorough  system  of  card-catalogues  thereof  and  from  time  to  time 


prepare  all  unbound  books  for  binding.  He  shall  announce  all  ad- 
ditions to  the  collections  at  each  meeting  of  the  Society,  and  shall 
make  to  the  Executive  Committee  a  monthly  report  of  the  work 
done  on  the  collections  and  the  library.  He  shall  receive  compen- 
sation, and  shall  remain  in  attendance  in  the  rooms  of  the  Society 
certain  hours  each  day,  the  compensation  and  hours  to  be  determined 
by  the  Society  at  their  stated  meeting  in  December. 

CHAPTER  II. 

OF   MEMBERS. 

ART.  I. — The  Society  shall  consist  of  resident  members  and  cor- 
responding members. 

ART.  II. — All  candidates  for  admission  into  the  Society  as  resident 
members  must  be  proposed  and  vouched  for  in  writing  by  two  mem- 
bers, who  shall  be  required  to  have  some  personal  acquaintance  with 
the  one  they  propose,  and  shall  also  be  required  to  state  the  character, 
profession,  qualifications  and  place  of  residence  of  the  candidate. 
All  propositions  for  resident  membership  must  be  made  at  a  stated 
meeting,  and  be  balloted  for  at  the  next  stated  meeting,  when  the 
affirmative  votes  of  three-fourths  of  the  members  present  shall  be 
necessary  to  elect  a  candidate. 

ART.  III. — The  right  of  voting,  of  holding  office,  and  of  trans- 
acting business,  shall  be  confined  solely  to  resident  members.  Cor- 
responding members  shall  have  all  other  privileges  of  resident 
members. 

ART.  IV. — Propositions  for  admission  into  the  Society  as  corre- 
sponding members  must  be  made  in  writing  by  two  members  at  a 
stated  meeting,  and  be  balloted  for  at  the  next  stated  meeting,  when 
the  affirmative  votes  of  three-fourths  of  the  members  present  shall 
be  necessary  to  elect  a  candidate. 

ART.  V. — No  person  residing  in  Philadelphia,  unless  he  be  an 
officer  of  the  army  or  navy,  can  be  elected  a  corresponding  member, 
nor  shall  he  continue  as  such  after  he  shall  have  removed  perma- 
nently to  Philadelphia.  In  such  case  a  re-election  is  not  necessary, 
but  the  member  becomes  liable  for  the  annual  contributions. 


ART.  VI. — No  resident  member  shall  be  entitled  to  the  privileges 
of  membership  until  he  shall  have  paid  the  initiation  fee  and  signed 
the  following  obligation  : 

In  becoming  a  resident  member  of  the  AMERICAN  ENTOMOLOGICAL  SOCIETY, 
I  promise  to  conform  myself  to  the  Charter,  By-Laws  and  Regulations,  and  in 
testimony  whereof  I  do  hereunto  subscribe  my  name. 

ART.  VII. — If  any  person  shall  be  balloted  for  and  rejected,  or 
his  name  withdrawn  previous  to  the  ballot,  no  note  of  said  rejection 
or  withdrawal  shall  be  made  on  the  minutes  of  the  Society. 

CHAPTER  III. 

OF    CONTRIBUTIONS. 

CHAPTER  IV. 

OF    RESIGNATIONS    AND    EXPULSIONS. 

CHAPTER   V. 

OF    COMMITTEES    AND    THEIR    DUTIES. 

ART.  1. — There  shall  be  three  Standing  Committees  who  shall  be 
elected  annually  at  the  stated  meeting  in  December,  viz.  :  one  on 
Publication  and  one  on  Finance,  to  consist  of  three  members  each, 
and  an  Executive  Committee  consisting  of  five  members,  including 
the  Librarian  and  Curator. 

ART.  II. — The  Committee  on  Publication  shall  receive  all  papers 
that  have  been  accepted  for  publication  by  the  Society,  have  them 
published  as  early  as  possible,  and  follow  in  publication,  as  far  as 
practicable,  the  order  in  which  they  have  .been  reported  upon ;  and 
also  to  publish  such  abstracts  of  the  records  of  the  Society  as  may 
be  of  general  interest,  and  at  the  stated  meeting  in  December  of  each 
year  submit  a  report  of  its  operation. 

ART.  III. — The  Committee  on  Finance,  with  the  Treasurer,  shall 
take  charge  of  all  moneys  coming  to  the  Society,  and  invest  the 
same  ;  change  any  or  all  of  the  investments  of  the  Society  whenever 
it  may  deem  it  advantageous  so  to  do.  and  report  such  changes  to 
the  Society  at  its  next  stated  meeting,  with  the  reasons  for  making 
the  same,  and  at  the  stated  meeting  in  December  submit  a  report  of 
its  operations. 


ART.  IV. — The  Executive  -Committee  shall  have  charge  of  the 
rooms  of  the  Society,  and,  under  its  rules  (Chapter  VII),  shall  have 
general  supervision  of  the  arrangement,  preservation  and  increase  of 
the  collections,  and  all  exchanges  of  duplicates.  They  shall  report 
when  repairs  are  needed  and  when  ordered,  see  that  they  are  properly 
executed,  and  shall  provide  all  such  conveniences  as  may  be  necessary 
for  the  accommodation  of  the  members  of  the  Society.  They  shall 
meet  at  least  once  a  month  to  inspect  the  rooms,  the  library,  and 
the  collections,  and  shall  report  to  the  Society  at  the  stated  meeting 
in  December  upon  their  condition,  and  the  work  done  thereon  during 
the  year  just  closing.  They  shall  promptly  report  to  the  Society 
any  neglect  of  duty  on  the  part  of  the  Curator. 

ART.  V. — In  appointing  all  other  Committees  the  President  shall 
name  the  first  member,  who  is  to  nominate  the  second,  the  second  a 
third,  and  in  like  manner  successively,  until  the  number  agreed  upon 
be  complete. 

ART.  VI. — All  committees  must  report  in  writing,  and  every  re- 
port must  be  signed  by  a  majority  of  the  committee. 

CHAPTER  VI. 

OF    SPECIAL    FUNDS. 

ART.  I. — The  Society  is  authorized  to  accept  in  trust,  and  also  to 
create  separate  funds  for  specific  purposes,  which  shall  be  distinctly 
named.  The  principal  of  each  fund  shall  be  kept  invested  in  the 
name  of  the  Society  in  such  good  lawful  securities — the  loans  of  the 
United  States,  the  loans  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  or  of  the  City 
of  Philadelphia,  sound  real  estate  securities,  or  others — as  the  So- 
ciety may  direct,  and  shall  be  held  for  the  special  purposes  for  which 
each  fund  may  be  created. 

ART.  II. — All  money  which  may  accrue  in  the  process  of  changing 
the  investment  of  a  Trust  Fund  shall  be  invested  again  without 
delay  for  the  same  trust ;  but  no  investment  shall  be  changed  without 
the  consent  of  the  Society. 

CHAPTER   VII. 

OF    CABINET. 

ART.  I. — The  keys  of  the  cases  containing  the  collection  shall  be 
kept  by  the  Curator,  subject  to  the  call  of  the  Executive  Committee, 


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who  have  the  liberty  to  open  the  cases,  and  shall  be  responsible  for 
all  specimens  committed  to  their  charge. 

ART.  II. — No  specimen  or  specimens  contained  in  the  collection 
of  the  Society  shall  be  loaned  from  the  Kooms  without  the  consent 
of  the  Executive  Committee,  and  then  only  to  students  on  condition 
that  all  such  specimens  will  be  returned  correctly  determined  as  far 
as  possible. 

ART.  III. — The  collections  of  the  Society  may  be  opened  at  any 
time  by  a  member  of  the  Executive  Committee,  and  shall  be  opened 
for  the  inspection  of  members  and  students  at  all  times  that  the 
Curator  is  in  attendance,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  Chapter 
I,  Article  VIII. 

ART.  IV. — Duplicates  may  be  exchanged  for  other  material. 
Four  specimens  of  a  species,  or  a  greater  number  where  species  is 
represented  by  many  varieties,  shall  be  retained  in  the  collection. 
Provided,  however,  that  where  an  exchange  of  great  advantage  to 
the  collections  can  be  effected,  one  of  two  specimens,  when  of  the 
same  sex,  may  be  exchanged. 

CHAPTER  VIII. 

OF    LIBRARY. 

ART.  I. — The  library  shall  contain  books  having  reference  to 
Entomology,  and  no  books  shall  be  loaned,  except  under  proper 
guarantee  of  their  safe  return,  or  on  deposit  of  the  value  of  the 
same. 

ART.  II. — Books  deposited  in  the  library  shall  at  all  times  be  at  the 
command  of  the  depositor,  and  shall  not  be  loaned  unless  with  his 
written  consent,  the  Society  assuming  no  responsibility  on  account 
of  such  deposit. 

CHAPTER   IX. 

OF    PUBLICATION. 

ART.  I. — All  written  communications  intended  for  publication, 
read  or  presented  to  the  Society,  shall  be  referred  to  the  Committee 
on  Publication,  to  report  thereon  at  the  next  stated  meeting. 


ART.  II. — All  such  communications  become  the  property  of  the 
Society,  and  shall  be  deposited  in  its  Archives  after  publication  ;  a 
copy,  however,  of  any  paper  read  before  the  Society,  may  be  taken 
by  the  author ;  but  all  written  communications  which  shall  not  be 
accepted  for  publication  may  be  returned  to  the  author  if  requested. 

ART.  III. — No  author  shall  be  permitted  to  make  any  other  than 
verbal  alterations  in  a  paper  while  it  is  in  the  hands  of  the  Publica- 
tion Committee,  without  their  consent ;  nor  shall  the  Committee 
make  any  alteration  in  a  paper  committed  to  it  without  the  consent 
of  the  author.  All  alterations  proposed,  other  than  verbal,  must  be 
approved  by  the  Committee,  and  if  the  types  are  set,  such  alterations 
shall  be  made  only  at  the  expense  of  the  author. 

ART.  IV. — The  regular  publication  of  the  Society  shall  be  called 
the  "  TRANSACTIONS  of  the  American  Entomological  Society,"  and 
shall  be  published  in  numbers  of  a  uniform  octavo  size,  at  as  short 
intervals  as  practicable.  The  expenses  of  publishing  the  "  TRANS- 
ACTIONS" shall  be  defrayed  by  subscriptions  and  sales,  aided  by  the 
interest  arising  from  the  permanent  Publication  Fund. 

ART.  V. — The  Committee  shall  keep  a  correct  account  of  its  money 
transactions,  receiving  all  moneys  arising  from  the  sale  of  the 
"  TRANSACTIONS"  and  interest  from  the  Publication  Fund,  and  pay- 
ing all  bills  for  publishing  the  same,  these  having  been  first  approved 
by  a  majority  of  the  Committee. 

CHAPTER  X. 

MEETINGS. 

ART.  I. — The  stated  meetings  of  the  Society  shall  be  held  on  the 
second  Monday  evening  of  June  and  December,  at  such  hours  as 
may  be  fixed  from  time  to  time  by  the  Society. 

ART.  II. — Special  meetings  of  the  Society  may  be  called  by  the 
President  whenever  he  may  deem  it  necessary,  and  it  shall  be  his 
duty  to  call  a  special  meeting  at  the  request  of  any  three  members 
in  writing. 

ART.  III. — Five  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  trans- 
action of  business. 


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ART.  IV. — The  order  of  business  at  stated  meetings  shall  be 

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follows 

1.— Minutes  of  last  stated  meeting  shall  be  read. 

2.— Reports  of  Officers  and  Committees. 

3. — Donations  to  Cabinet. 

4. — Donations  to  Library. 

5. — Written  communications. 

6. — Verbal  communications. 

7. — Unfinished  business. 

8. — New  business. 

9. — Proposals  and  Elections. 
10. — Rough  minutes  read  and  adopted. 
11. — Adjournment. 

CHAPTER   XI. 

ART.  I. — In  all  such  points  of  order  as  are  riot  noticed  in  these 
By-Laws,  the  Society  is  to  be  governed  by  the  established  usages  of 
similar  institutions. 

ART.  II. — Every  proposition  to  alter  or  amend  these  By-Laws 
shall  be  submitted  in  writing  at  a  stated  meeting,  and  acted  upon 
at  the  next  stated  meeting,  and  if  adopted  by  the  affirmative  vote 
of  two-thirds  of  the  members  present,  it  shall  become  part  of  these 
By-Laws. 

ART.  III. — None  of  these  By-Laws  shall  be  suspended. 


